TV's Vinnie:The composer of the film, including the theme song "Hooray for Santy Claus" is Milton Delugg, who works to this day in his 90's as the musical director for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

QuillofNumenor:TV's Vinnie: The composer of the film, including the theme song "Hooray for Santy Claus" is Milton Delugg, who works to this day in his 90's as the musical director for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's DeLugg.

And he was the brainstormer behind the music for The Gong Show which made him all sorts of awesome whenever Gene Gene the Dancing Machine did his thing.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener:DjangoStonereaver: That would have been the other MST3K holiday offering, Churubusco-Azteca's K. Gordon Murray's SANTA CLAUS

That was so wonderfully weird.

Soooooooo glad that they did that one!

The show went off of COMEDY CENTRAL at the end of 1996, and the last 2 episodes scheduled for broadcast wereSANTA CLAUS and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.

I was madly trying to finish my VHS collection of eps, and was stoked that I'd have both of the Christmas shows on thesame tape back to back.

But, instead of running SCCtM, CC ran the episode ANGEL'S REVENGE, whose host segments revolved around howthe show was failing in the ratings and needed retooling to succeed. It was a clear middle finger to the fans of theshow, who had by that time already banded together to take an ad in VARIETY (of which I was a proud monetarycontributor) pleading for SFC to pick up the show. I'm proud to say that apart from the odd episode of THE DAILYSHOW or COLBERT, I have not wasted any of my time watching anything on COMEDY CENTRAL since then.

DjangoStonereaver:Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener:DjangoStonereaver: That would have been the other MST3K holiday offering, Churubusco-Azteca's K. Gordon Murray's SANTA CLAUS

That was so wonderfully weird.

Soooooooo glad that they did that one!

The show went off of COMEDY CENTRAL at the end of 1996, and the last 2 episodes scheduled for broadcast wereSANTA CLAUS and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.

I was madly trying to finish my VHS collection of eps, and was stoked that I'd have both of the Christmas shows on thesame tape back to back.

But, instead of running SCCtM, CC ran the episode ANGEL'S REVENGE, whose host segments revolved around howthe show was failing in the ratings and needed retooling to succeed. It was a clear middle finger to the fans of theshow, who had by that time already banded together to take an ad in VARIETY (of which I was a proud monetarycontributor) pleading for SFC to pick up the show. I'm proud to say that apart from the odd episode of THE DAILYSHOW or COLBERT, I have not wasted any of my time watching anything on COMEDY CENTRAL since then.

Comedy Central HATES MST3K these days, for some reason. They adamantly refuse to acknowledge the show in anything involving their history, despite MST3K being the show that allowed them to even exist.

Keizer_Ghidorah:"A pentagram and reindeer laughing. YOU figure it out.""Whoa-ho, now this is good old-fashioned nightmare fuel!"

The "Santa's help from around the world" sequence was GOLD.

"The children of the USA."

"...are too spoiled and lazy to help Santa. There, that makes it better."

DjangoStonereaver:The show went off of COMEDY CENTRAL at the end of 1996, and the last 2 episodes scheduled for broadcast wereSANTA CLAUS and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.

I was madly trying to finish my VHS collection of eps, and was stoked that I'd have both of the Christmas shows on thesame tape back to back.

But, instead of running SCCtM, CC ran the episode ANGEL'S REVENGE, whose host segments revolved around howthe show was failing in the ratings and needed retooling to succeed. It was a clear middle finger to the fans of theshow, who had by that time already banded together to take an ad in VARIETY (of which I was a proud monetarycontributor) pleading for SFC to pick up the show.

Oh, that's vile.

That's... yeesh.

Double dumbass on them.

DjangoStonereaver:I'm proud to say that apart from the odd episode of THE DAILYSHOW or COLBERT, I have not wasted any of my time watching anything on COMEDY CENTRAL since then.

Keizer_Ghidorah:Comedy Central HATES MST3K these days, for some reason. They adamantly refuse to acknowledge the show in anything involving their history, despite MST3K being the show that allowed them to even exist.

Syfy's not much better.

They had a quick mention of MST3K in their 20 Years of Syfy special, as if the show were an afterthought or something.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener:Keizer_Ghidorah: "A pentagram and reindeer laughing. YOU figure it out.""Whoa-ho, now this is good old-fashioned nightmare fuel!"

The "Santa's help from around the world" sequence was GOLD.

"The children of the USA."

"...are too spoiled and lazy to help Santa. There, that makes it better."

"Talented children from the Orient..." "Are not here today!""A neighborly group from Mexico..." "Are over-accessorized.""Even Russia has a delegation, as well." "Currently under surveillance by the CIA."

And of course, all of the "Evil vs The Narrator" parts were golden, and "Let's start a Chinese restaurant?" and "Hey, that's not a doll, that's a sister!" when Lupita got that huge-ass doll.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener:Keizer_Ghidorah: Comedy Central HATES MST3K these days, for some reason. They adamantly refuse to acknowledge the show in anything involving their history, despite MST3K being the show that allowed them to even exist.

Syfy's not much better.

They had a quick mention of MST3K in their 20 Years of Syfy special, as if the show were an afterthought or something.

*shrugs*

Little excepr from TV Tropes: Mystery Science Theater 3000 was victimized twice by network heads (Doug Herzog at Comedy Central and Bonnie Hammer at Sci Fi Channel) who professed not to understand the show's sense of humor and clearly resented having it left to them as a legacy program from previous executives; they wound up fighting a war of attrition against the show's small but vocal fan base while looking for an excuse to cancel the series. Despite this, the show enjoyed a ten-season run, plus almost five years of reruns on the Sci Fi Channel, before finally signing off for good in 2004. The Movie is well known for being screwed by the studio.

So, yeah, we have dipshiats and morons to blame for MST3K leaving us. The Movie being farked over was the reason Joel left the show.